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Drupal 7

By : David Mercer
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Drupal 7

By: David Mercer

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is an elegantly designed, well-supported and flexible open-source CMS platform that anyone can use in order to create their own website. What's more, the latest version of Drupal 7 includes a tremendous number of new features and new under-the-hood improvements for both users and developers. Drupal is a hugely popular and widely celebrated open-source Content Management System that is day-by-day becoming the first choice of people for a wide range of websites. The White house and the British government, to name but a few, turn to Drupal to fulfill their online requirements.</p> <p>This book provides the best way to learn and master Drupal 7, enabling you to create virtually any type of website. It meets the booming demand for well presented, clear, concise, and above all practical information on how to design and build sites like a pro.</p> <p>With such a powerful tool at your fingertips there is no longer any need to pay professionals to design a site when you can do the same job yourself absolutely free. All it takes is a bit of practice!<br /><br />By clearly and concisely demonstrating the fundamentals of Drupal and combining this with practical and methodical coverage of more advanced subjects, this book paves the way for anyone to quickly become proficient at building and operating professional websites.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><a href="http://smepals.com/create-website">Online Web design tutorials</a></span> will help you to consolidate and expand on what you learn in the book. It is an indispensable companion for anyone and everyone interested in building a website.</p> <p>Experienced technical author David Mercer expertly guides the reader through all the stages of building a professional website in a plain, articulate manner. Aimed in particular at beginners to Drupal, this book will allow you to advance rapidly up the learning curve to the point where they can tackle any problem with confidence.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Drupal 7
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter has rounded off the picture painted by the rest of the book by taking a look at some of the most important website-related chores that you will have to undertake. Knowing how to automate backups at the click of a button will be an invaluable tool in the coming weeks and months as you develop and maintain a fledgling site or two.

Implementing a user and search engine-friendly site is one of the most important things you can do to get your new site noticed. Path and Pathauto can help to make URLs easier to read and parse for humans and bots alike. Submitting a site map will also go a long way in ensuring that the major search engines index your content correctly and efficiently.

Finally, keeping your site up-to-date with the latest core distribution and modules is extremely important for maintaining a bug-free, secure web platform.

With the end of this chapter, we come to the end of the book. Congratulations on getting here, and I wish you all the best in your future endeavors...